How will UK quarantine 150 Britons being flown back from Wuhan?

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How will the UK quarantine 200 people to safeguard against the spread of the coronavirus?

The government is evacuating around 150 British nationals from Wuhan and the surrounding Hubei province and will quarantine them for 14 days to safeguard against the possible spread of the new coronavirus.Nick Gibb, the school standards minister, told Sky News the plan is for theThey will initially land at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at about 10.45am on Friday before being taken to a facility - Sky News understands this will be on the Wirral in northwest England.

"If you develop respiratory symptoms within 14 days of travel to the area, and are now in the UK, call your GP or ring 111 informing them of your symptoms and your recent travel to the city.Nurse Pauline Cafferkey was quarantined after she contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone in 2014Yes. Pauline Cafferkey contracted Ebola in December 2014 after treating patients in Sierra Leone at the height of the outbreak which killed more than 11,000 people.

The hospital has a high level isolation unit which is used for treating infectious diseases - and is always fully prepared to admit a patient at very short notice. This includes enforcing special requirements and restrictions - if there is a serious and imminent threat to public health - including"medical examinations, removal to or detention in a hospital or other establishment, or isolation or quarantine".

The magistrate can only issue such orders if they are satisfied that a person may be infected or contaminated, could present significant harm to human health, and there is a risk the person may infect or contaminate others.Australia plans to quarantine its nationals in immigration detention facilities on Christmas IslandAustralia, South Korea, Singapore, New Zealand and Indonesia have said they will also quarantine evacuees for at least two weeks.

 

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So they recover these people and dump them in ‘the Wirral!’ Where’s London in times like this? Hoovering up all the glory and patting itself on the back 95% of the time, but when it needs to take responsibility for its decisions it offloads the problem. Why do we hate the South?

In one of the Queen's EIGHT palaces

and if any of them refuse to sign the quarantine contract...what then?

They'll do it for Queen and Country!... surely?

Just throwing it out there, what about Nigel_Farage living room?

Is that a question ?

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